#Long Eared Myotis

[loveisinthebat]

Gently Toasted

[vintageslideshow]

The bat of the day, submitted for your approval: a long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis). 1982 slide.

[bat-identifier]

-Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) -Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (Micropteropus pussilus) -Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus) -Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) -Some kind of Myotis (possibly a Natterer's bat?) -Greater (?) Horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) -Pallas's Long-tonged bat (Glossophaga soricina) (Possibly a different Long-tonged bat, but I found the image source and this is how they labelled it, so...) -Southeastern Myotis (Myotis austroriparius) (or perhaps a different, similar myotis) (they all look the goddamn same!!!! lol) -Seba's Short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) (potentially a different new world leaf nosed bat, the image source I could find very unhelpfully just labelled it a 'leaf nosed bat')

Bats 🦇

[24hrsoda]

This is gonna be long and prob uninteresting so feel free to skip but I saw that you wrote that you didn't think of species when drawing bats for your au and that we're free to interpret them how we want and though Large flying fox wouldn't match what you've drawn super well (outside of colour) cause they've got small ears and are raven sized(up to around 1kg in weight and 1.5 meter wing span), it'd mean that Cass could very easily hitch a ride as long as she's a normal sized bat(like a black myotis, though all vesper bats are prob too small so a species of leaf nosed bat might fit better but she doesnt have a leaf nose).

Also Cass having small eyes but being able to echolocate while Bruce has big ol eyes and can't would be a fun parallel to Cass's mask not having visible eyes and her whole 'body language as a native language' thing(like... both being an extra sense kinda deal).

I really hope this isn't a bother i just love bats and will use any excuse i can get to word vomit about them, they are such an awesome group of animals(they make up a fifth of all discovered mammal species(1300) and the smallest have a weight that's like 1/400th that of the biggest! Not to mention the variation in noses and ears!) and your au is very cute(Not to mention all the other awesome art)!

Hope you have a good day! Also, please look up the Lesser mouse-tailed bat if you haven't seen it i love them, ghost bats(woag... like the ship) are really funny looking too. Most bat species are fucked up little freaks and i love them all, they might be part of what got me into batman ngl 👉👈. I'd def recommend looking through bat species just for the hell of it cause they really are awesome, theres some real cute and bizzare ones out there. I've personally used dif species as inspiration for dif batman designs.

Ok i'm restraining myself so hard to not write more i want to write about the bird eating spectral bats so bad but this is. So long. And unsolicited.

Ghostbats are ugly-cute little gremlins! I’ve come across so many pictures of them while looking up ghostbat (the ship) related things!

I do find a lot of bats to be strange and funny looking but cute in their own way :3 I just don’t have enough bat knowledge to decide which species of bat first best for each Bat family member lol. But plenty of people seem to have better ideas than i do!

These are all interesting, Anon! And the differences between Cass and Bruce would make for some super interesting and cute connections between the two of them.

(I did go back and do some research to find the photos i used as references when i first started sketching the AU and i believe i used pictures of fruit bats, which may be why i colored them brown!!)

and speaking of ghostbat…maybe Khoa needs to make an appearance or two in this AU…and i have a pretty good idea of how to do that :3

[chiiroptereh]

The bats of Pokémon through the eyes of a bat nerd (who also used no references so they're a tiny bit iffy)

Forgot to bring my tablet so I'm playing with dad's rainbow markers and pens. I kinda dig it actually but my phone cannot take proper photos of them lol

Nerdy stuff about design choices and lots of bat facts under the cut if you're interested in that!

Zubat is mainly modelled after Vespertillionidae and Natalidae species, inheriting both families' pointy faces and dense fur that often covers their eyes, making them appear blind (except zubat actually is blind). Their wings are broad, more akin to a Megadermatidae species, which was just a choice based off of the original design. Broader wings allow for increased manoeuvrability at the cost of speed in real species. Their legs are long and spindly, another trait borrowed from Natalidae.

Golbat still has zubat's woolly fur to keep its rounded appearance but has narrower wings as well as stumpy ears and a large mouth, all traits gleaned from free-tailed bats, the latter a trait specifically of the genus Otomops. They really do look like that sometimes yes. Its large feet are borrowed from the fish-eating myotis (Myotis vivesi) who frankly has even bigger feet than this guy. Bats are wacky lol

Crobat has a mostly furred face similar to Pteropid, Rhinolophid or Phyllostomid bats. Its ears are more fantasy and not modelled after any existing species. I had hairy-tailed bats of the genus Lasiurus on the mind while interpreting the little tufts on its bum, here they're meant to be fluff hanging off the uropatagium. It has very narrow wings similar to Molossid bats, and it fits for such a speedy Pkmn! (Fun fact: a Molossid bat was the fastest recorded vertical flight of any animal)

Woobat is inspired by Desmodus species, more commonly known as vampire bats. While their cousins the Honduran white bat (Ectophylla albus) is more commonly the interpretation, I chose Desmodus instead for its flat, heart-shaped noses and similar dental structure. The excess in fur is more attributed to the same families as in zubat, but with some more Lasiurine influence.

Swoobat's choice in inspiration was pretty obvious to me at first: the heart-nosed bat (Cardioderma cor)! The furred face and ears joined at the base is indeed inspired by Megadermatid bats but otherwise it has probably the most mixed influences of all these designs. I once again took the flat, heart-shaped nose from Desmodus species like I did with its pre-evo, and then its tail was adapted from Rhinopoma species (fittingly known as mouse-tailed bats!) as well as Molossid (free-tailed) bats. From an entirely nerdy perspective swoobat is easily my favorite, it really highlights a lot of chiropteran diversity whether intentional or not.

Noibat has joined ears like swoobat, inherited from Megadermatid bats (and sometimes Molossids) and is the first to have an actual nose-leaf, partially influenced by trident bats of the genus Asellia. I was kind of imagining that the bare patch between the tufts of black fur were present because they housed scent glands like in Emballonurid (sac-winged) bats who have similar bald patches. (I don't know a ton about Emballonurid bats unfortunately, so I'm not sure whether this is a family-wide occurrence or attributed to certain genii, lol. If anybody knows feel free to tell! I think some Molossids have scent glands too so heck throw them in as well)

Noivern is easily the most fantastical of the bunch, more dragon than bat, but it wouldn't feel right not to include him. He's got the same design choices on the face that its pre-evolution has (joined ears and nose-leaf) but otherwise doesn't have any more specific influences in batty terms. However, I turned the tragus into that little protrusion under the ear of the original design which I thought was kind of clever ;)

[an-impossible-theorem]

woe, fluffy space bat be upon ye

my personal headcanon design for Mr Pages, featuring an incredibly stylish (and incredibly unnecessary) pince-nez, and my attempt at adapting a glasses chain for a ten-foot-tall space bat (important in the case of suddenly needing to fly)

based off of a long-eared myotis; a north american bat species that is suitably round and fluffy (look them up, they’re very cute)

don’t ask me how those horns fit under a cloak. red science? probably.

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Northern Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) AKA Northern Long-Eared Bat

East & Midwest USA and Canada

Status: Near Threatened

Threats: Disease, Pesticides, Human disturbance

[bonefall]

sorry if you've talked about this before, but I'm curious if clanmew have different words for different bat species? they obviously differentiate insects and birds, but bat's are harder to distinguish at a glance. cats would have an advantage with their hearing, being able to hear bat's squeaks (and I think different species make different patterns and sounds?) but like. I don't remember how many bat species there are here (I think noctule, pipistrelle, greater horseshoe, lesser horseshoe, daubenton's, whiskered, barbastelle, and serotine? I mightve missed a couple), but I love bat's so thought I'd ask. pipistrelle are the most common though I'm from the south-east of England so I occasionally see daubenton's too.

FOUR bat species! Over here in the main entry for birds, check there if you'd like more trivia on them. Clan cats count them as very special, blessed songbirds.

The ones that Clan cats have words for so far;

Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) = Popep

Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) = Ipi'ip

Long-eared Brown Bat (Plecotus auritus) = Fepfr

Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula) = Shi'po

There are four more kinds of bat, for EIGHT total in this region, that I have not yet described because I don't have good access to their song recordings (Even the main four were ass on butts to hunt down) If you have clear recordings of the songs of these four I'll add them too.

Pipistrellus nathusii

Nyctalus leisleri

Myotis daubentonii

Myotis nattereri

[pumpkinpire]

What kind of bat should my mascot be?

[vampire-meta-knight]

tell me about the bats

please?

Sure thing! I’ll tell you about some of the bats I caught with my biology professor (they weren’t harmed or killed, don’t worry).

(Side note, you need a permit to catch bats, so don’t try this at home, kids!)

First up, let’s talk mist nets! The nets my professor uses are actually meant for birds and are nearly invisible (especially at night) since the strands are so fine. However, bats can still actually see them with their echolocation! How do we counteract this? We put the nets over a stream or in a clearing that bats fly through so regularly that they don’t constantly echolocate because they’ve memorized their path, or they’re getting a drink of water and can’t echolocate with their mouth full. Then you carefully untangle them while wearing leather gloves (I used a crochet hook to help untangle them). You obviously must be gentle with them, especially their wings. The bats I was able to touch without gloves were as soft as a rabbit. Bats are typically very clean and groom each other as a way of bonding (though can still have mites, as many of the big browns did).

The most common one we caught, as well as the largest, was the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), which has the nickname Eptesicus fuss-n-cuss because of how loudly they yell at you when you catch them. These bats only weigh about as much as a car key, and the females are larger than the males. They have big teeth for crunching beetles. These ones also find their way into buildings frequently and are around humans more than some of the other species I caught. Big Brown pictured below (not my pic)

Eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis) are such pretty bats; they look like Halloween with their orange fur and black wings. Their fur is designed for cooler weather, even having fur on their wings. They’re related to the hoary bat and look similar, though much smaller and redder. We didn’t catch any hoary bats since they fly higher than the nets go, but a cool fact about them is that their echolocation actually can be heard by some humans. It’s just on the threshold of frequencies we can pick up, so some people still can’t hear it.

Eastern Red on left, Hoary on right (not my pics)

Evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) look like smaller big brown bats, but you can easily tell them apart by smell. They have a distinct “burnt oranges” smell.

Evening bat (not my pic)

Little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) have long hairs on their toes, so my professor likes to compare them to hobbits. They, like others in the genus Myotis, have a distress call that draws in other Myotis species (such as Indiana bats and Northern long-eared bats), so if you catch even one Myotis, you’re bound to get several more all in the same area of the net.

Little brown (not my pic)

Other fun facts: The shape and size of a bat’s wings determine its speed. Some bats are very fast, and others (such as those that eat spiders or caterpillars) can slowly hover.

When releasing a bat, you can’t put it on the ground, as they have a hard time getting off the ground. Instead, you toss them in the air so they can fly away. Alternatively, you can place them on a tree trunk, and they’ll sit there or climb a little higher before letting go to fly. This is also why they hang upside down, so they can just drop and go. Not many bats can jump—I know vampire bats can, but still not very high. However, don’t pick up a bat you’ve just found on the ground. Although I not nearly as many bats carry rabies as people often think, rabid bats will often wind up on the ground, so it’s best to leave them be.

To tell if a bat is an adult or juvenile, we hold their wings up to the light and check a joint in the arm part of their wing. If it’s clear, that means it still has cartilage, so it’s a juvenile. Adults will have solid bone, so it won’t be transparent.

Thanks for asking about bats!

[luxudus]

Some Giant Flightless Furious Future Bats i drew almost a year ago, that I tried really hard not to make a bootleg Night Stalker and Future predator but miserably failed. This was for a friend on an old twitter thread where I asked for speculative evolution prompts and she asked for predatory bats

The Vladraptor (Sangustipula saltu) is a quadrupedal descendant of modern day Vampire bats native to what's left of the amazon rainforest some 30 million years into the future. Only 2 of their fingers still have a use. One is flattened out to serve as a pseudo foot while the only other useful finger is highly modified into a Raptorial claw used for swinging at prey. Their hind legs have rotated nearly 180 degrees, allowing it to jump like a grasshopper. It uses what's left of it's echolocation to communicate and coordinate with pack mates to take down the typical Hippo like Capybara descendants or the Fully herbivorous Megafaunal Iguana descendants.

The Tyrant Myotis (Tyrannumyotis malus) is a large, wolf sized descendant of modern day California Myotises native to the west cost of north America some 20 million years into the future. They were able to evolve into such large and ferocious beasts because a small scale extinction event left a power vacuum in the top niches in the local food web. Allowing the unassuming bats to rise to the top. Because of the arid climate of the west cost. A section of their ears and their mostly vestigial wings now serve as heat displacers. Their long snouts had elongated even more to make room for bigger flesh tearing teeth. Forcing their hind body into serving as a counterbalance while their hind limbs atrophied.

[iambittythings]

It's bat week! You have to love bats, they fertilize, polinate, pest control, and are cute as the dickens. They deserve our protection and respect.

From top to bottom:

Honduran White Bats, sharing their leafy tent.

Long Eared Myotis, very elegant Canadian bats.

Eastern Red Bats, some of the must Hallowe'en looking lil guys you'll ever see.

The Honduran Whites have a new home, but if you'd like a lil bat to hang out on your ears, the rest are still looking for a new roost.

[nabbit-unmasked]

Current Strongest Kin(s): a bunch of songs

Most Preferred Name(s): Sage

Current Fronters: Sage & Cougar (probably)

Intro Post!

Hi! I'm Sage/Stolace, but you can also call me by any kin name. I'm also fine with any nicknames you can come up with, as long as they're spinoffs of my other names!

• I'm an Alterhuman, and that's what this blog will be mainly focused on, with a special focus on placekin topics.

• My pronouns are he/it/lo/🇨🇫

• I'm a minor (16+ in age)

• I am Autistic and attribute this as the source of my alterhumanity.

• I am a therian, placekin, fictionkin, conceptkin, and an alterhuman in general. Overall, I have 20+ confirmed kintypes which I'll list down below.

• I am genderfluid, and my sexuality is achillean. I identify as trans, mlm, and punkboy4punkboy. I am also objectum, especially for The Gambia and dakota discs.

• Taken by Val (he is my boyfriend /srs)

• I personally identify as a punk, degenerate, freak, and social reject. I reclaim these terms proudly.

• Liminous (Dreadliminal, Backroomian, +more)

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[ Kinlist, Identities, Tags, and BYF under the cut. ]

♡ -> Kinlist <- ♡

• Theriotypes:

♡ Lipizzan

♡ Fisher

♡ Quoll (Species leaning: Eastern & Spot-Tailed)

♡ Ruminantia (Cladotherian)

♡ Ardeidae (Pluritherian)

♡ New Guinea Singing Dog / Canine

♡ Big Cat (Lion / Cougar)

♡ [Unsure] Kori Bustard

• Placekin:

♡ Central African Republic (C.A.R. / CAR)

• Conceptkin:

♡ Home Safety Hotline/HSH

*[as in the company, not the physical game]

♡ Slaughterhouse (GD level)

♡ Limbo (GD level)

• Songkins:

♡ Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers

♡ Everyone Knows That/EKT (Lostwave version)

♡ B O D Y O N T H E F L O O R - Scratchy

♡ you don't love me - Rebzyyx

• Songflickers:

[ Currently None ]

• Fictionkins:

♡ Stolace* (Helluva Boss)

♡ Vox (Hazbin Hotel)

♡ Adam (Hazbin Hotel)

♡ Stone (Ramshackle)

♡ Moisty (TWISTED DOCTOR Universe / Doll Eye)

♡ Nabbit (Mario Franchise)

♡ Cooper (Papa's -eria games)

♡ 1st Prize (BBIEAL)

♡ Blabbot (Amanda the Adventurer)

*[ I spell my name as "Stolace", not "Stolas". ]

• Fictionhearted:

♡ Blitzø (Helluva Boss)

♡ Valentino (Hazbin Hotel)

• Other Hearttypes:

♡ D.R.C.

♡ Birds

♡ Bat-Eared Fox

• Other Identities:

♡ Myotis/Little Brown Bat w/ Leafnose

♡ Common Bedbug copinglink

♡ Seagull copinglink

♡ Odie copinglink (from Garfield)

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#I am the CAR kin / #CARstuff🇨🇫: Posts about my placekin experience as the Central African Republic.

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[the-crystal-femmes]

hai!! we just wanted to pop in and say hello!!

also one of our sys members is currently kinsidering some type of bat![all she knows is that its a micro bat and lives in a cold-ish climate] do u have any like suggestions[i dont think this is the correct word but oh well/gen/lh] on what type of bat it may be?/nf/genq

Hihi!

Unfortunately I'm not sure what bats live in cold climates. I myself live in Minnesota though, which has quite the cold climate during the winter, and I'm more than happy to supply a list of microbats that live in my state!

Big Brown Bat

Silver-Haired Bat

Eastern Red Bat

Hoary Bat

Little Brown Myotis

Northern Long-eared Bat

Tri Colored Bat

Evening Bat

Each bat name is clickable and has a link to respective pages for each species. Note that some of these bats hibernate and are definitely not the only bats that live in cold climates. However I hope this is able to help!

[dragimalsdaydreams]

[image ID: a digital reference sheet for a little creature named "Basil", with additional text reading, "pobat (opossum - myotis bat); omnivorous scavenger; any pronouns".

in the main reference, they have a stout, grey-fur opossum body, and short, black-fur opossum legs with bare, white toes and black claws. they have fluffy white head fur, but their most of their snout is bare, black skin with a white nose and some whiskers-- much like a bat. a nearby image of Basil with their jaw open shows their pointed opossum teeth and pink gums. their eyes are a mostly solid grey/black, and their ears are tall and pointed like a bat, with black skin and white blotches. they have a set of large, black bat wings set just behind their front legs, which have white tips, thumbs, and large eyespots at the back edges of each wing. nearby text reads, "optional eyespots only on underside". the back edge of the wing membrane leads into a long, bare black opossum tail, which has some white spots/blotches. bits of green moss, clover, and cream-colored fungi are scattered in their fur across the top of their head and back.

small, simple doodles to the side show different versions of Basil with accompanying text. "variable size: bat-sized to opossum-sized" shows Basil sitting in the palm of a human hand, then being held like a cat in someone's arms. "animal colors or plant colors" shows two different color schemes for Basil. the first is the standard color scheme, but the bare patches of white skin patterns have been changed to pink like an opossum. the second shows Basil with a fully green/brown color scheme to match the plant growth, with green body fur, dark green head fur and legs, pale green eyes, pale yellow/green skin, and brown/tan skin patterns. "fluid design, variations on a theme" shows different structural designs for Basil. "opossum + plants" shows Basil as a pure opossum (no wings, short opossum ears, full-fur snout) with the plant color scheme and plant growth. "bat + opossum" shows Basil with the standard color scheme and no plant growth. "just opossum" shows Basil as a pure opossum, with the opossum color scheme and no plant growth.

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very excited to introduce my first ever.... alternate 'sona!! I've only ever used Willow as my one and only 'sona my entire life, and I still love her to death, but she's so complicated and a bit unwieldy sometimes. so this lil' guy is the simplified, "pared down" version of what Willow represents about me, if that makes sense? like if Willow is the core of my soul, then Basil is the "mascot" of my soul, haha

anyways, as the ref sheet here states, Basil has a pretty fluid design, with "opossum" as the unchanging core of that design, I suppose. simplify the patterns, draw them as just as an opossum or as a pobat, draw them bat-tiny or just cat-small, give them plants or not-- they're still Basil either way~

[oh-gh0st]

DOES SHINREI HAVE A FAVORITE BAT SPECIES

Indeed she does! Its the long-eared myotis :]